Where I'm From-JAŸ-Z

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[ar:Where I'm From - Jay-Z]
[al:In My Lifetime Vol.1]
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[00:00.00]Where I'm From - Jay-Z
[00:06.03]Y-y-yea
[00:08.67]Y-y-yea
[00:11.21](Brooklyn)
[00:11.79]How real is this
[00:14.57]How real is this
[00:16.93](Brooklyn)
[00:18.48]Uh uh uh
[00:20.27](Brooklyn)
[00:21.43]Respect this here check
[00:23.94]I'm from where the hammers rung news cameras never come
[00:27.20]You and your mans hung in every verse in your rhyme
[00:30.07]Where the grams is slung niggas vanish every summer
[00:32.76]When the blue vans would come we throw the work in the can and run
[00:35.86]Where the plans was to get funds and skate off the set
[00:38.73]To achieve this goal quicker sold all my weight wet
[00:41.86]Faced with immeasurable odds still I gave straight bets
[00:44.78]So I felt I'm owed something and you nothing check
[00:47.53]I from the other side where the other guys don't walk too much
[00:50.61]And girls in the projects wouldn't **** us said we talked too much
[00:53.76]So they ran up to Tompkins and sought them dudes to trust
[00:56.59]I don't know what the **** they thought those niggas is foul just like us
[00:59.63]I'm from where the beef is inevitable summertime's unforgettable
[01:02.77]Boosters in abundance buy a half-price sweater new
[01:05.49]Your word was everything so everything you said you'd do
[01:08.35]You did it couldn't talk about it if you ain't lived it
[01:11.32]I'm from where niggas pull your card and argue all day about
[01:14.73]Who's the best MCs Biggie Jay-Z or Nas
[01:17.49]Where the *** czars evolve and thugs always are
[01:20.47]At each other's throats for the love of foreign cars
[01:23.44]Where cats catch cases hoping the judge R-and-R's
[01:26.20]But most times find themselves locked up behind bars at all
[01:30.00]I'm from where they ball and breed rhyme stars
[01:32.22]I'm from Marcy son just thought I'd remind y'all
[01:35.07]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son ain't nothing nice
[01:38.38]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own
[01:40.88]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son ain't nothing nice
[01:44.66]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own
[01:47.18]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son ain't nothing nice
[01:50.46]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own
[01:52.73]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son ain't nothing nice
[01:58.84]I'm from the place where the church is the flakiest
[02:01.44]And niggas is praying to God so long that they atheist
[02:04.60]Where you can't put your vest away and say you'll wear it tomorrow
[02:07.65]Cause the day after we'll be saying"Damn I was just with him yesterday"
[02:10.70]I'm a block away from hell not enough shots away from stray shells
[02:13.93]An ounce away from a triple beam still using a hand-held weight scale
[02:16.36]You're laughing you know the place well where the liquor stores and the base well
[02:19.92]And government **** government niggas politic themselves
[02:22.54]Where we call the cops the A-Team cause they hop out of vans and spray things
[02:25.91]And life expectancy so low we making out wills at eighteen
[02:28.51]Where how you get rid of guys who step out of line your rep solidifies
[02:31.57]So tell me when I rap you think I give a **** who criticize
[02:34.50]If the **** is lies god strike me and I got a question
[02:37.58]Are you forgiving guys who live just like me We'll never know
[02:40.33]One day I prayed to you and said if I ever blow I'd let 'em know
[02:43.68]Mistakes ain't and exactly what takes place in the ghetto
[02:45.96]Promise fulfilled still I feel my job ain't done
[02:49.28]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice
[02:52.77]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice
[02:55.44]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own
[02:58.28]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice
[03:01.30]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own
[03:04.10]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice
[03:07.67]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own
[03:09.98]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice
[03:15.33]I'm from where they cross-over and clap boards
[03:18.39]Lost Jehovah in place of rap lords listen
[03:21.78]I'm up the block around the corner and down the street
[03:24.86]From where the ***** *********** and the ** lords meet
[03:27.63]We make a million off of beats cause our stories is deep
[03:30.70]And **** tomorrow as long as the night before was sweet
[03:33.61]Niggas get lost for weeks in the streets twisted off leek
[03:36.73]And no matter the weather niggas know how to draw heat
[03:39.69]Whether you're four-feet or Manute size it always starts out with
[03:43.27]Three dice and shoot the five
[03:45.58]Niggas thought they deuce was live now I hit 'em with trips
[03:48.65]And I reached down for their money pa forget about this
[03:51.52]This time around it's platinum like the **** on my wrist
[03:54.61]And this Glock on my waist y'all can't do **** about this
[03:57.43]Niggas'll show you love that's how they fool thugs
[04:00.59]Before you know it you're lying in a pool of blood
[04:03.33]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice
[04:06.79]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own
[04:09.24]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice
[04:12.93]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own
[04:14.94]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice
[04:19.05]Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own
[04:21.31]Cough up a lung where I'm from Marcy son Ain't nothing nice